55. ARACE.^. 



153 



Juncus capitatus. 



1. Juncus capitatus, 



AVeigel. Capitate Bush. Dwarf 

 annual; stems slender, naked, 

 unb ranched ; leaves all I'adical, 

 shorter than the stems, linear- 

 channeled; flowers 3-10 in a ter 

 minal cluster, with sometimes a 

 second cluster a little lower on 

 the stem, subtended by a floral 

 leaf, each cluster Avith 2 leafy 

 bracts at base, the lower one 

 longer and exceeding the flowers ; 

 perianth segments brownish with 

 a green keel, the inner ones 

 shorter than the outer, which 

 have a long, finally curved 

 point; stamens 3; capsule small, 

 bluntly ovoid, mucronate, much 

 shorter than the perianth. 



Pasture, Moimt Lofty Range. — 

 Sept. -Oct. Almo-st cosmopolitan. 



2. J. bufonius, L. Toad liu.s}i. Annual, rather 

 taller than the preceding, with numerous slender stems, 

 branching from near the base; leaves sh(n-t, linear-channeled, 

 radical and at the base of the branches : flowers solitary 

 along the branches and in the forks, or 2-3 together at the 



perianth pale- 

 exceeding the 

 inner ; stamens 3 

 dark-i'pd. shining, 

 Adelaide plains 

 Sept. - Oct. — Temperate regions 

 of the globe ; considered by some 

 authorities a native. 



Family 55.— ARACE/E. 



1. RicH.'^RDiA, Kunth. 

 (After L. C. Richard, a French 

 botanist.) 

 1. Richardia africana, 



Kunth. A nun Lih/. Pciiiniiiil 

 herb with a thick rootstock : 

 leaves large, with branching 

 stalked, radical, dark- 

 oval - cordate, pointed ; 

 large. white, funnel- 

 slit to the base, spread- 

 the upper part, pointed 

 at summit ; .spadix 

 on a stout radical 



ends; bract .scarious, shorter than the flower; 

 green, the otiter segments longpointed and 



or 6 ; capsule 



mucronate. 

 and hills. — 



nerves, 



green, 



spathe 



shaped 



iug in 



and recurved 



bright-vellow 



Richardia africana. 



pe 



duncle ; stamens covering the 



